Articles & Announcements

A Call to Prayer – The Next Chapter

The staff and trustees of the Banner of Truth are calling on our supporters to join with us in prayer for the next chapter of the work of the Banner of Truth. At various times in history, nations and churches have issued calls to prayer, often in times of crisis. Whatever the rights and wrongs […]

Author The Banner of Truth Trust

Category Announcements

Date April 13, 2026

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The Power of Littles

On the 18 May 1843, in Edinburgh, currently the home city of the Banner of Truth headquarters, there was a seismic event in the history of the church in Scotland. This was the day of the Disruption, when almost 500 ministers left the state supported Church of Scotland and formed the Free Church of Scotland. […]

Author The Banner of Truth Trust

Category Announcements

Date April 13, 2026

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Reading the Psalms: A New Resource

As Christians we believe that all Scripture is God-breathed and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work (2 Tim. 3:16), but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t particular books and sections of Scripture that we love even more than […]

Author Warren Peel

Category Articles

Date October 12, 2026

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Pitfalls in Preaching: A Letter on Application

The following letter was published in the December 2025 issue of the Banner Magazine. It is published here at the request of a reader who found it helpful, in the hope that its counsel might be blessed to others also. You can also listen to a reading of this letter on the Banner Podcast. Dear […]

Author David Vaughn

Category Articles

Date September 30, 2026

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Dogmatists Against Dogma

The following excerpt is from James Walker’s The Theology and Theologians of Scotland, which we have just typeset and republished in a clothbound edition. Walker is here responding to the criticism of Scottish Christianity which faults it for being too doctrinal: ‘Then, again, I think the idea has taken possession of many in our day, that Scotch […]

Author James Walker

Category Book Excerpts

Date September 15, 2026

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‘Cases of Conscience’ Related to the Sabbath

The following is an excerpt from Walter J. Chantry’s Call the Sabbath a Delight (pages 96–102). When some Christians come to believe that it is their duty to keep the Sabbath Day holy, they become very fearful lest they engage in the wrong activities on the Lord’s Day. Such apprehension often takes the form of wanting […]

Author Walter J. Chantry

Category Book Excerpts

Date August 27, 2026

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Famine in Judah: God’s Providence Displayed

We all need a greater sensitivity to God’s sovereign rule over all beings and events. Alexander Carson’s study, The History of Providence as Manifested in Scripture can help train us in such sensitivity. Here are his comments on the subject of famine in Judah from Jeremiah 14: FOR the existence of plenty as of famine, […]

Author Alexander Carson

Category Book Excerpts

Date August 5, 2026

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